What a glorious day...woke up to snow on the ground, it snowed for about an hour after I got to the jr. high I was subbing at and then quit until tonight.
Around 7pm it started snowing again and it just kept snowing more and more, by the time I got out of class at 10:15 there was over 5 inches of snow on my car. Silly me...failed to put my scraper in the car so I had to use a McDonalds large, empty cup to scrape the snow off of the windows...by doing it that way I had the greatest of pleasures (cough-cough) of getting snow DOWN the sleeves of my coat and my sweater! BRRRRR.........! But I love the snow and I dried out quickly.
Well...since Saturday last I was feeling pretty good about myself for passing my algebra quiz....then tonight, after recorrecting my quiz, I failed by 2%....grrrr....but at least it was better than the 15% I failed from the first quiz! I also took my mid-term today, wrote down the questions on a separate piece of paper to go over them with the tutor to make sure I got them right....well...WRONG....!!!! and I was feeling pretty good about my answers until I was done with the tutor.
I will not give up on the math/algebra....! If I pass everything between now and the end of the term, then I will pass the class and I'm grateful it is a pass/no-pass class rather than a grade because my GPA would fall and I want to keep it up at a 4.0 for as long as I can.
I prayed today and tonight for promptings while taking the test so I would at least get most of them right, that my mind would be quickened and I'd remember how the problems could be solved. I knew I'd flop miserably with the word problems. I tried two and then gave up...so I'm pretty sure I didn't get any of those right because I had to guess at the answers. If I got more than 60% right on my test, I will be grateful....however....I doubt that I did that well. Maybe I should fast and pray the next time I take a test in Algebra. Tomorrow, we get another quiz and then next week another mid-term....this ought to be extremely interesting.
The whole thing is, when it comes to math, that I lack faith in my capability and I don't lack faith in God's capability to help me. I'm strong in that faith, but weak about myself. I've thought perhaps hypnotism would be good to help me in math, but I know that I need to memorize and work, work, work everyday in order for it to stick. What my math instructor told me is that it isn't exactly good for students who only work at math part-time when he as the instructor works with it at least six hours a day at the high-school and then comes and teaches two nights a week at the University....it comes naturally to him....he's a human calculator. I really like him, he is kind, humorous, patient, smart and helpful. Now if I decide to change my major to Math or my minor to Math, maybe then, with the continual working on it day in and day out, I JUST MIGHT GET IT!!!!
Another day has begun (it is now nearly 1 a.m.) and I'm off to bed. I finished "The Lost Symbol" today, worked on math until my head spun around several times, watched a bit of TV to unwind when I got home, answered emails and did this...my blog. It's time for scriptures and prayer and then a good hard sleep. I am exhausted...it's been an extremely long day for me....but one I am grateful for because the Lord let me experience another day.
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